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February 26, 2008

UN: we need more help to feed the poor

Skyrocketing food prices, including from food being diverted to biofuel, is leaving the UN’s World Food Programme in a hell of a bind. The U.S. has already said it will cut back assistance. Food riots are hitting more countries. Pakistan has instituted rationing.

This could get globally ugly.

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